Salon.com
seems unable to understand just why so many Westerners have fears about the
nature of Islam.

In an article
titled, “‘Why Islam? Why are Muslims considered the worst by Americans?’
The questions young Muslims ask me about Donald Trump and America,” Professor
Brian T. Edwards of Northwestern Universitywrites that Trump has crafted a nasty international image of
the United States thanks to his supposed Islamophobia.

Edwards says the news about Trump’s temporary ban on Muslim
immigration hit while he was teaching in Morocco – an absolute monarchy
currently cracking down on Islamic radicals to ensure its own power
base. Of course, Moroccans in general are not nearly as pro-Western as the
monarchy; a 2006 poll showed that 68 percent of Moroccans approved terrorist
attacks against US troops in Iraq, 61 percent supported such attacks in
Afghanistan, and 76 percent wanted strict shariah law in every country.
Nonetheless, Edwards writes:

To young Moroccans — whose country is 99 percent Muslim and
long friendly to the United States — Trump’s anti-Muslim comments were the
latest sign that American culture has become increasingly hateful toward them.
The global effects of speech such as Mr. Trump’s are profound here and will be
long-lasting.

Edwards quotes students lamenting the Trumpian perception of
Islam:

“I have a question,” one female student asked me. “Why
Islam? Why are Muslims considered the worst by Americans?” This is a question
that matters here. The student wore a black hijab. Her face was open and
friendly. She looked personally wounded.

Another student followed with a related point: “Most people
in the U.S. have guns. Here in Morocco we don’t have guns. We are peaceful.” The
students nodded and seemed distressed that they might be thought otherwise.

The exceptional reach and uncontrolled speed with which the
worst of our cultural products spread means that the ideas by which America was
attractive during the last century are no longer reflective of the present one.

Well, let’s see. Why would Westerners have a negative
perception of global Islam? Perhaps because in 2015, 32,700 people were killed
in terrorist attacks, more than twice as many as in 2013, and the vast
majority of those killings came from Islamic terror.

Perhaps it’s because Islamic countries have a rotten record
with regard to treatment of those of minority faith – if they’re even permitted
in their countries at all – and a worse record with regard to human rights
generally.

Perhaps it’s because Muslim immigrants to Europe have caused
skyrocketing crime rates, and many of those Muslim immigrants are French
Moroccan; a 2011 report from the
Dutch Ministry of Interior, for example, showed that forty percent
of all Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands had been accused of criminal
activity between ages 12 and 24. That’s not exceptional. Muslim immigration to
Sweden, France, Belgium, and other areas of Europe have created cultural rifts
and increased criminal activity.

But Edwards pretends that anti-Western sentiment among
Muslims is a newfound notion springing from America’s invasion of Iraq, despite
all evidence to the contrary – and despite the uptick in terrorism globally
since the onset of the more radical Islam-friendly Obama administration. In fact,
Edwards still blames that idiotic YouTube video “The Innocence of Muslims” for
Muslims rioting all over the world on the eleventh anniversary of September 11.

What hogwash. It’s always the West responsible for
perceptions of Islam, not large swaths of the Islamic world enmeshing
themselves in barbarity, cruelty, and war. The irony: while Edwards and his ilk
are always prepared to ask about the Muslim world, “Why do they hate us?,”
they’re never ready to ask why Westerners might dislike Islamic civilization.
And there’s a far easier answer to that one.

Salon

Jonathan Broder
was a reporter for Salon, an adviser
for the Israel Defense Forces, and areporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Note: Rahm I. Emanuel was
a civilian volunteer for the Israel
Defense Forces, the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration, is the Chicago (IL) mayor, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Rahm Emanuel’s Father
Specialized in Terrorist Bus Bombings in Palestine

Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter
Newsmagazine, and is the acting head for the Nation of Islam (Muslims).

Newton N. Minow
is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the president of the Crown
Family Foundation, and a life trustee at Northwestern University.

Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a VP for the Crown Family Foundation, a life trustee
at Northwestern University, and was
a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Thomas R.
Pickering is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), was a U.S. ambassador for Israel, a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the chairman of review board that investigated
the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in
Benghazi, Libya in 2013.

Innocence of
Muslims is a film that initially reported to have sparked protests in the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi,
Libya in 2013.

Michael G. Mullen
was a vice chairman of review board that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2013, and is an
advisory board member for Everytown for
Gun Safety.

Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Commerce forthe Barack Obama administration, wasthe national finance chair, fundraiser
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a co-chair for the 2009
Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, and the host for the Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008.

J.B.
Pritzker is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the president of the Pritzker
Family Foundation, and a trustee at Northwestern
University.

Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter
Newsmagazine, and is the acting head for the Nation of Islam (Muslims).

Harold Washington’s
adviser was Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.,
was the Chicago (IL) mayor, Judson H. Miner was his counsel, and Carol Moseley Braun was his spokesman.

Judson H. Miner
was Harold Washington’s counsel, and
is a partner at Miner, Barnhill &
Galland.

Carol Moseley
Braun was a spokesman for Harold
Washington, and was an attorney for Miner,
Barnhill & Galland.

Barack
Obama was an associate at Miner,
Barnhill & Galland, an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP, the candidate for the 2008Barack Obama presidential campaign,
and a parishioner at the Trinity United
Church of Christ (Chicago).

Allison S. Davis
was a partner at Miner, Barnhill &
Galland, and a co-founder for DV
Urban Realty Partners.

Robert G. Vanecko
is a co-founder for DV Urban Realty
Partners, and Richard M. Daley’s
nephew.

Richard M. Daley
is Robert G. Vanecko’s uncle, William C. Ayers is his adviser, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
was the Chicago (IL) mayor, and Michelle Obama was his staffer.

William C. Ayers
is Richard M. Daley’s adviser,
married to Bernadine Dohrn, was a
member of the Weather Underground, a
chairman for the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge, and a director at the Woods
Fund of Chicago.

Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, a chairman for the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge, a director at the Woods
Fund of Chicago, an associate at Miner,
Barnhill & Galland, the candidate for the 2008Barack Obama
presidential campaign, and a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).

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